3D print Airavatesvara Temple
A free, printable model of the Airavatesvara Temple, its stepped tower, pillared hall and walled compound, with the green grounds and low buildings around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About Airavatesvara Temple
Airavatesvara Temple is a Hindu temple in the Chola style, in Darasuram, a suburb of Kumbakonam in the Thanjavur District of Tamil Nadu, in South India. The Chola emperor Rajaraja II built it in the 12th century CE, and it is dedicated to Shiva. UNESCO lists it as a World Heritage Site, together with the Brihadeeswara Temple at Thanjavur and the Gangaikondacholisvaram Temple at Gangaikonda Cholapuram, all three called the Great Living Chola Temples.
The temple is classified as a Karak Koil because it was designed after chariots, the vehicles used in processions during festivals. The surviving temple stands inside a compound wall of approximately 107 meters (351 ft) by 70 meters (230 ft). The pyramidal tower, or vimana, is 24 m (79 ft) high, above an inner sanctum that is a square with sides of 12 meters (39 ft). The maha-mandapa has forty-eight pillars in six rows, with reliefs and intricate carvings, and the agra mandapa takes the form of a chariot, complete with carved stone wheels and horses.
Carved balustraded steps near the agra mandapa produce a musical note, which is why they are called the "singing steps". Carvings around the base of the main temple tell of the Nayanars, sixty-three Shaiva Bhakti saints. Local mythology says Airavata, the white elephant of Indra, regained clean white skin by bathing in the temple's water tank. A stone carving in the inner shrine records the legend, and the elephant gives the temple its name.
How it prints
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
| Print size | Landmark height | Scale |
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| 160 mm default | 7 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 9 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 12 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Stepped pyramidal tower
- The tower is built from many small tiers topped by a domed cap. Print friendly adapts small details like these to your print scale; Full detail keeps every tier, best on a larger print with 0.12 to 0.16 mm layers.
- Pillared halls in a large compound
- Rows of small pillars and carved details sit inside a wide, flat walled compound. A bigger print keeps these features easier to read.
- One piece with the ground
- Airavatesvara Temple is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
- In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
- Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. Airavatesvara Temple takes the building color.
- File format
- You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About this model
Airavatesvara Temple is one of more than 2,300 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
Common questions
Is there an Airavatesvara Temple STL I can download?
Mini Skyline builds the file for you in your browser and exports 3MF, which every major slicer opens. If you need an STL, open the 3MF in your slicer and export it from there.
How big can I print it?
Any print size from 40 mm across. Airavatesvara Temple grows with the print: about 7 mm tall on the default 160 mm print. For a model larger than your printer bed, Project Mode splits the area into tiles.
Is it free?
Yes. Generation runs in your browser, with no account and nothing behind a paywall.
